List of Eiffel Tower replicas

As one of the most iconic images in the world, the Eiffel Tower has been the inspiration for the creation of over 30 duplicates and similar towers around the world.

Replicas

• The Eiffel Tower was the inspiration for the Blackpool Tower in Blackpool, England. After visiting the Great Paris Exhibition in 1889, the town's mayor John Bickerstaffe commissioned the building of the tower, which has a very similar design and was completed 1894. The main differences are that the Blackpool Tower is approximately half the height of the Eiffel Tower and is not freestanding, the base being contained within buildings which house the Tower Circus. Both the Eiffel Tower and Blackpool Tower feature on the list of the World Federation of Great Towers.

Other Eiffel-inspired towers, in order of decreasing height:

• Tokyo Tower in Minato Tokyo, Japan — 332.5 m (1,091 ft)
• In front of the Paris Las Vegas hotel/casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Paradise, Nevada — 165 m (541 ft) (scale 1:2).
• Ismaning Radio Tower — Wooden radio tower used for mediumwave broadcasting similar like Eiffel Tower, demolished in 1983 — 163 m (535 ft)
• Eiffel Tower of Window of the World, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China — 108 m (354 ft) (scale 1:3)
• Eiffel Tower of Tiandu City Community, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China — 108 m (354 ft) (scale 1:3)^[1][2]
• Kings Island Amusement Park, Mason, Ohio — ~101 m (~332 ft, scale 1:3) ^[3]
• Kings Dominion Amusement Park, Doswell, Virginia — ~101 m (332 ft, scale 1:3)
• Slobozia, Romania — 54 m (177 ft)
• In Parizh, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Built by South Ural Cell Telephone company as a cellphone tower — 50 m (164 ft)
• Watkin's Tower in London, England, UK — Original planned to be 358 m (1,175 ft) high and construction began in 1891, but finally constructed to 47 m (154 ft) and demolished in 1907.
• Fayetteville, North Carolina — The Bordeaux Tower is about 45 m (148 ft)
• In Zoo, Copenhagen, Denmark. Wooden replica — 43.5 m (143 ft)
• Golden Sands sea resort in Varna, Bulgaria — A tower with a ratio of 1:10 to the original (approximately 32.4 m (106 ft)) is built in the town as a tourist attraction.
• Walt Disney World's EPCOT theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Florida (at the France Pavilion in World Showcase) — 23 m (76 ft, scale 1:10)^[4]
• Paris, Texas — 20 m (66 ft)
• Eiffel Tower (Paris, Tennessee) in Paris, Tennessee — about 60 feet (18 m) tall.
• An 18 m model in Filiatra, Messinia, Greece, at the entrance of the village^[5][6]
• As a Meccano model, housed at the SciTrek technology museum in (Atlanta, Georgia) — 11 m (36 ft)^[7]
• Mini-Europe, Brussels, a 12.96 m model (a proportion of 1:25 to the original).
• Model on the roof of the Rue De Paris cafe in Brisbane, Australia — (roughly 12 m (39 ft) tall)
• Montmartre, Saskatchewan - 8.5 metres tall.
• In Austin, Texas there is a 7.5 m (25 ft) tall replica at the Dreyfus Antique Shop.
• Paris, Michigan; approximately 3 m (10 ft) (10 ft) tall and in a park
• Baku, Azerbaijan, Sahil Trade Center, at "Parfums de France" shop. Approximately 3 m (10 ft) tall.
• In 2007 the Lego company released a 1:300 scale model of the Eiffel tower as a set.^[8] It contains 3428 pieces and stands 108 cm (42.5 in) tall and 50 cm (19.7 in) wide and deep.

Some more replicas of an unknown height:

• On the roof of the catering company Rungis Express in Meckenheim and Satteldorf , Germany
• Centerpiece of the Falconcity of Wonders — a planned new development project in Dubai. UAE, featuring seven modern wonders of the world (planned).^[9] (approximate coordinates)
• Inwald Miniature Park, Inwald, Poland
• Model in the First World Plaza shopping mall in Genting Highlands, Malaysia^[10]
• Aktau, Kazakhstan — model at the front of the office of Oil Construction Company
• Satteldorf near Crailsheim, Germany. On the top of a company building
• Apach, France, on the border with Germany and near the border with Luxembourg
• Da Lat, Vietnam. Design to used as Viettel telecommunications tower
• Bloemfontein, in an industrial area next to Batho suburb.
• Barra World Shopping & Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gallery

References

1. ^ "Reuters.com". Reuters.com. 2009-02-09. http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=969. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
2. ^ lefigaro.fr. "Le Figaro – Actualité en direct et informations en continu". Lefigaro.fr. http://www.lefigaro.fr/economie/20070823.FIG000000095__hangzhou_les_chinois_batissent_une_replique_de_paris.html. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
3. ^ "KI Mobile". Visitkingsisland.com. http://www.visitkingsisland.com/attractions/detail.cfm?ai_id=153. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
4. ^ Disney's official French Pavilion page — lists the Eiffel Tower as approximately 1/10 the height of the original.
5. ^ "Tower model at Filiatra". Users.mes.sch.gr. 2001-03-22. http://users.mes.sch.gr/stamgian/ERG_MATINAS.htm. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
6. ^ Photograph of Filiatra tower
7. ^ "Eiffel Tower". Dalefield.com. http://www.dalefield.com/mwes/history/eiffel_tower.html. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
8. ^ "LUGNET Set Guide". Guide.lugnet.com. http://guide.lugnet.com/set/10181. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
9. ^ ":: Falconcity of Wonders (L.L.C) ::". Falconcity.com. http://www.falconcity.com/. Retrieved 2010-05-24. 
10. ^ First World Plaza. Retrieved on 2008-09-13

See also

• Eiffel Tower